"All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine."

“Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.”

Source : Interview magazine, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

“Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.”

“The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.”

“I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.”

“When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.”

Source : Bret Harte (2016). “The Argonauts of North Liberty”, p.56, The Floating Press

“We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.”

“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”

Source : Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.310

“Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.”